On 07/21/2015 06:04 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Then you have the question of training. Me, I learned how to use Office without "training", on my own, by banging my head. Later, I did the same with LO (which was easier). But most office workers, if they have been trained in one, will refuse to use the other even if very similar, on the grounds of not being trained in it.
And hence there is a business, a quite busy and profitable business, in retraining such users when MS releases a new version of Office. If you recall, unlike OO/LO, each revision of MS-Office has a different looking UI. Now to people like Thee and Mee, who, as you say, mastered what we needed then and will master anything more we might come to need, the "hard way", and if you think those sheep are like the people in Asimov's story "Profession", http://www.abelard.org/asimov.php, where they can't adapt to a slightly differnt thing than what they've been trained on, then you'll have no argument from me. Yes I know that Vi/troff isn't the same as LO isn't the same as Abiword isn't the same as allegra-word yamma yamma yamma but I've not been trained in any of those either. It's sort of like saying that because you learnt to drive in a Honda you can't drive a Ford or a Buick. If you say you can't drivce an articulated truck, then maybe, cornering one of those or backing up one of those isn't going to be easy, its going to be a lot harder than the trailer or boat hooked onto your F150. But a "ten ton truck' or perhaps even a combine harvester ... BTDT. Cornering the harvester with the blades down is a bugger, but you don't do that very often :-0 But there are times when you do what's needed and saying "I haven't been trained" is no excuse.
Don't trivialize training: I have seen several attempts at implementing Linux on some environments that failed very soon because of this. The management installed Linux, then the users formatted the disks and installed pirated copies of Windows; and the local management did not stop this, because they did the same on their computers.
Lost battle.
That's not a "can't", its a "won't". We've got plenty of examples of {parents,grandparents,relatives} being given a Linux platform to do their email & browsing and never complaining. When I think about it, there are plenty of Windows users who have Thunderbird ad Firefox. There are many file managers that don't look much different from {thunar,rox,dolphin,commander} so a cross-over shouldn't be difficult. Now command line, that's another matter. -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org